1531 in art

Works

• Albrecht Altdorfer – The Pride of the Beggar Sitting on the Train
• Correggio – Leda and the Swan
• Lucas Cranach the Elder – Cupid complaining to Venus and The Three Graces
• Giulio Romano – Jonah and the Whale
• Giovanni Battista Piazzetta – Portrait of Sophie Juliane von der Schulenburg
• Lucas van Leyden – Healing the blind men of Jericho
• Bernard van Orley and William Dermoyen – ''The Battle of Pavia''

Births

• Vincenzo Cartari, Italian painter
• Luis de Carbajal, Spanish painter of the Renaissance period
• Lodovico Leoni, Italian painter mainly active in Rome
• : Alonso Sánchez Coello, portrait painter of the Spanish Renaissance

Deaths

• Hans Burgkmair, German painter and printmaker in woodcut
• Andrea del Sarto, Italian painter from Florence
• Hans Leu the Younger, Swiss painter
• Girolamo Mocetto, Italian Renaissance painter, engraver, and stained glass designer
• Tilman Riemenschneider, German sculptor and woodcarver